You asked for it. Our three of two beautiful to live with Luke Burbank starts now on

NewsTalk 710 Cairo.

Oi, it's time for another hour of TBTL, the show that's probably two beautiful to live.

I'm Luke Burbank, thank you very much for spending this part of your Friday night with

us. All right, part of being a sports fan, part of the true joy of it, at least as far

as I'm concerned, is that moment when you're watching a game, and you have this little

thought in the back of your mind, and it is this, I could probably do that.

If the wind was blowing just right, and if I had drank just enough gatorade, maybe, possibly

I'd be able to actually do what those guys out there are doing. Now, none of us usually

get the chance to test this theory out, but our next guest actually did his name, Stefan

Fatsis. He's a writer. He's written a book called Word Freak, which is about his attempts

to become a great scrabble player. His new book, it's called A Few Seconds of Panic, and

it details his attempts to make the Denver Broncos as a kicker. You may know Stefan Fatsis'

name. If I was introducing him on NPR, I'd say, Stefan Fatsis joins us to talk about sports

and the business of sports, which is, that's a terrible joke, isn't it?

I'm chuckling. Hi, Luke. I won't go down that road, because my Robert Siegel impression

is just dreadful, but... Oh, please, no, give it to me.

So your last book was about becoming a scrabble player, and you decided this time you wanted

to just try to actually get killed? I did. I mean, the simple answer that I've been giving

to people is that Word Freak was about my brain, and I wanted to do something that was

about my body. I wanted to see if a 40-year-old guy could actually get into shape. And now

the gap between, you know, what we do on weekends, play games, work out, pretend that we're

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